Kids Cafe
The program’s mission is to provide balanced, nutritious meals to help children at risk help themselves through positive learning experiences to improve their quality of life and their future. This program serves a targeted population of at-risk children between the ages of 5–18 who can benefit from nutritious meals and snacks, as well as educational and enrichment activities. Kids Cafes operate under the direction of sponsoring nonprofit agencies. Along with an evening meal, each Kids Cafe offers a variety of enrichment activities such as tutoring, mentoring, life skills training, and nutrition education.
Goals
- To motivate and empower communities to form an alliance of partners to respond to the problem of childhood hunger
- To provide additional learning experiences for at-risk children in an after-school setting
- To provide a nutritiously adequate meal to at-risk children
- To provide nutrition education to children and their parents
- To expand Kids Cafes to all children in need on the Peninsula
Virginia Peninsula Foodbank will be serving meals at no charge to children 18 and under through the At-Risk Afterschool Meals Program. For information regarding meal distributions, click on the link below:
Important program update please read: November 2022 meals at no charge for children (PDF).
To find meals near you email info@HRFoodbank.org for a list of locations. There are no requirements for a child to receive food and no ID is required.